eople call me the gangster of
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From: Judith Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:48 PM
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Subject: OT: Usability Expert to Present at Tomorrow's NYCFUG Meeting!
At the next New York ColdFusion User Group (http:/
At the next New York ColdFusion User Group (http://www.nycfug.org) meeting,
find out how to create more effective Web products with the practice of
usability testing. Software project methodology guru Clark Valberg will take
you step-by-step through the process of setting up and conducting a
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* Interview with Douglas Ward on Fundamentals of Good Usability
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Thanks Mike. I'll look into them.
Rey...
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> http://www.usablenet.com/
>
> We are getting a sales conf call with this group next week. They
> contacted us, but I think we, being a university, should really make
> better use of usability and acce
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> From: Rey Bango [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:18 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Looking for a usability expert
>
> Hi all. My company is looking for a usability expert to review our
> shopping process and make r
Ray,
We're almost finished building our new Usability Testing Lab, which enables
us to synchronize video streams of participants' faces and voices (they
verbalize their thoughts as they go through the prescribed tasks) with the
video streams of their screen actions, analyze task me
Rey,
I have one that I use - she's very professional, has extensive experience with
usability, and has very reasonable rates. Instead of telling you all about her
here, just email me offlist at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll give you her contact
info.
Th
http://www.usablenet.com/
We are getting a sales conf call with this group next week. They
contacted us, but I think we, being a university, should really make
better use of usability and accessibility.
M!ke
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Hi all. My company is looking for a usability expert to review our
shopping process and make recommendations on how to improve it.
Could anyone make some recommendations?
Rey..
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Hi all. My company is looking for a usability expert to review our
shopping process and make recommendations on how to improve it.
Could anyone make some recommendations?
Rey..
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I wouldn't, it just confuses what should be a simple action. Of course if
the customer wants it that way then change it :O)
Ade
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Sent: 12 May 2005 17:36
To: CF-Talk
Subject: usability question involving a sort.
I have
Ian Skinner wrote:
>
> Tran Service Product CPT
> RBC 004350P9016
> FFP 034361P9017
> 102199 102199 86999
> 102131 102131 86808
>
> There are contols to sort each column in either ascending or descending
> order. My question invo
I have data that looks something like this.
Tran Service Product CPT
RBC 004350P9016
FFP 034361P9017
102199 102199 86999
102131 102131 86808
There are contols to sort each column in either ascending or descending order.
My questi
Glad to hear you had such a good time. It is a shame that so many
companies ignore usability. especially those that really need to (like
mine!)
The Nielson/Norman group has a lot of critics/detractors - but in my
opinion (even when I disagree with them) they're the only prominent
group r
/30/2003 2:34:36 PM >>>
Thanks for this run-down Candace and you're right Usability and Accessibilty are very much neglected and it is a REALLY big mistake that could eventually have legal implications.
Where can I find the Flash Usability study btw?
Kind Regards - Mike Brunt
Original Mes
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: OT: Usability
> Well, just got back form the Nielsen/Norman Group conference in Chicago
> and I have to say that is was a real eye-opener!
> I had one session where
Thanks for this run-down Candace and you're right Usability and Accessibilty are very much neglected and it is a REALLY big mistake that could eventually have legal implications.
Where can I find the Flash Usability study btw?
Kind Regards - Mike Brunt
Original Me
e who
were just scarred by the whole intro thing. A lot of people didn't
realize that flash could be used as a GUI tool!!!
Can you imagine!?!?
Anyway, I was surprised that so many companies have folks dedicated to
performing usability considerations and testing. I was particularly
interested
I believe, the "Usability" thread all in all has
produced some positive results thanks
to almost everyone who responded, which I appreciated.
Now, I'd like to go
a step further. Forgive me if you perceive the topic
OT.
Functionality
IMHO, an application or utility must be abl
Which would be great if most users remembered that much algebra...
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-Original Message-
From: Chunshen Li
> If a user is comfortable with "Foo must be a valid, non-negative number
> without fractions or decimals" wouldn't he/she be comfortable with
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 3:15 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Usability
>
>
> Mosh,
>
> I have a question for you. I'm thinking about "adding a sample
> data pop window for the Add function", do you think that's
> helpful in general as a too
) Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:00 PM
>> To: CF-Talk
>> Subject: Usability
>>
>>
>> The power of majority opinion or the danger of it.
>> What I'm saying here is that the majority opinion is right in
>> this cas
ginal Message-
>> From: Chunshen (Don) Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:00 PM
>> To: CF-Talk
>> Subject: Usability
>>
>>
>> The power of majority opinion or the danger of it.
>> What I'm saying here is that the majo
-Original Message-
From: Chunshen Li
> If a user is comfortable with "Foo must be a valid, non-negative number
> without fractions or decimals" wouldn't he/she be comfortable with
> "Enter an integer for this entry/field"? And the later seems simpler.
Except of course, that an integer c
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> -Original Message-
> From: Chunshen (Don) Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:00 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Usability
>
>
> The power of majority opinion or the danger
mical" side of things, is means:
>Quite Easily Done! ;-)
>
>Jim
>
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>From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 5:06 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: RE: Usability
>
>
>Quod Erat Demonstratum
>
>Bas
My apology for calling you names, sincere apology. Some one else took that to attack
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>>From: "Matt Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 1:14 PM
>>Subject:
Good point 8^).
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> -Original Message-
> From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:04 PM
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> Subject
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> -Original Message-
> From: Mosh Teitelbaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 9:49 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Usability
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>
> Actually, I hadn't meant it as tongue in cheek 8^).
>
> Error messag
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> -Original Message-
> From: Kreig Zimmerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 1:18 AM
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On a lighter "comical" side of things, is means:
Quite Easily Done! ;-)
Jim
-Original Message-
From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 5:06 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Usability
Quod Erat Demonstratum
Basically, "what is demonstrate
Chiming in a bit late here, not sure if this has been mentioned already,
but Steve Krug's book 'Don't Make Me Think!' is an excellent
supplement/constrast to Nielsen's style of usability advice.
I think Nielsen's work is valuable, but if you find him at all
curm
lumns--not
necessarily the design (which is perhaps even more spare than I would use--and I like
'em simple). But I don't think that the quality of Sun's UI invalidates Nielsen's web
usability data and analysis. I worked for many years as a public reference librarian,
t
No man...
...it's because the way I read that other poster, his hyper-correct error message was
intended as tongue-in-cheek.
Don't get yer knickers in a twist...
--- On Thu 07/10, Chunshen (Don) Li < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
From: Chunshen (Don) Li [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMA
Yeah sorry about that, I was a Lit major and all... ;)
--- On Thu 07/10, Kevin Graeme < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
From: Kevin Graeme [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quod Erat DemonstratumBasically, "what is demonstrated". It's a high brow way
of saying "it'splainly obv
QED
abbr.
Latin. quod erat demonstrandum (which was to be demonstrated).
--- On Thu 07/10, Chunshen (Don) Li < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Kreig,
What does Q.E.D stand for?
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No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.
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of saying "it's
>plainly obvious and you're stupid for not seeing it".
>
>-Kevin
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Chunshen (Don) Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 10,
Ah hell. I didn't mean for that to say that you specifically are stupid
or anything. Just a tongue-in-cheek kinda thing. I'm tired.
-Kevin
> -Original Message-
> From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:06 PM
> To: CF-Talk
&g
Chunshen (Don) Li wrote:
>
> What does Q.E.D stand for?
Quod Erat Demonstrandum, which is Latin for "What was to be
demonstrated". It is the traditional closure of the proof of a
mathematical theory.
Jochem
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>
>
> Kreig,
>
> What does Q.E.D stand for?
>
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y indicate this feature, but I'd send you URL if interested.
>This is not a new question, however, IMHO, it won't
>hurt to talk about it again.
>
>In my view, some assumptions are made by developers
>when they think of an application's usability, for
>instance, f
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>Subject: Usability
>
>
>> I think Mosh is spot-on in
Kreig,
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> I think Mosh is spot-on in his assessment. I always try to assume the
person on the other end is a drooling idiot and gear everything to that
standard (sometimes I find this user model aimed too high :D).
>
> Also, imh
"The ability to mentally assume the role of the person one is writing
software for is not impossible, nor is it improbable, for developers to be
able to do."
So, Calvin, do you belong to the above category of developers from the data admin
utility/tool point of view? :)
Thanks.
~~
I think Mosh is spot-on in his assessment. I always try to assume the person on the
other end is a drooling idiot and gear everything to that standard (sometimes I find
this user model aimed too high :D).
Also, imho while the longer message is... well, longer its also providing more detail,
wh
--- On Thu 07/10, Chunshen (Don) Li < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
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>If a user is comfortable with "Foo must be a valid, non-negative >number without
>fractions or decimals" wouldn't he/she be comfortable >with
>"Enter a
What you said seems to make sense. I particularly like the next paragraph.
[
Also, note the difference in the style of the error messages. The former
says "there was an error and this is what the error is." The latter says
"there was an error... now do this." It's a slight difference, but I thin
useit.com is very clean, I like the first look.
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I tend to read what Nielsen says about usability and try to make that fit
with good design principles. I think he knows plenty about usability and
squat about design.
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Not really. I've done this before and it's actually quite simple.
- Original Message -
From: Chunshen Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Don)
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2003 1:48 pm
Subject: Usability
> Good thought. However, the overhead is a bit too much, one has to
>
Chunshen (Don) Li wrote:
> If a user is comfortable with "Foo must be a valid, non-negative
> number without fractions or decimals" wouldn't he/she be comfortable with
> "Enter an integer for this entry/field"? And the later seems simpler.
Not necessarily. The former explains in more details wha
> If you haven't already, be sure to see Jakob Nielsen's
> UseIt.com site. He's a former Sun UI engineer who writes
> specifically about web usability. Great stuff, IMHO.
Not to start on bashing Nielsen, but has anyone ever seen a decent UI on any
Sun product? I h
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From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:50 PM
To: CF-Talk
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overhead? its done browser-side, barely any overhead.
tony weeg
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Good thought. However, the overhead is a bit too much, one has to
verify user's each key stroke.
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> or how about javascript that doesn't let them type in anything but the
> keyboard values
> of 0-9
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Good thought. However, the overhead is a bit too much, one has to verify user's each
key stroke.
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Mosh Teitelbaum wrote:
> > "There is a certain aspect to usability that has to do with color
schemes and
> > control layouts. A design that uses light gray text on a white
background
> > will not be very usable. Likewise, a design that requires form field to
be
> > to
If a user is comfortable with "Foo must be a valid, non-negative number without
fractions or decimals" wouldn't he/she be comfortable with
"Enter an integer for this entry/field"? And the later seems simpler.
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How about something like:
Foo must be a valid, non-negative number without fractions or
decimals.
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> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:29 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Usability
>
>
> One more thing, I forgot to add. In the case of Integer value
> for a field,
> what would
If you haven't already, be sure to see Jakob Nielsen's UseIt.com site. He's a former
Sun UI engineer who writes specifically about web usability. Great stuff, IMHO.
http://useit.com
Chris
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Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:05 PM
Subject: Usability
> This is not a new question, however, IMHO, it won't
> hurt to talk about i
One more thing, I forgot to add. In the case of Integer value for a field,
what would be a fool-proof help text then?
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"There is a certain aspect to usability that has to do with color schemes and
control layouts. A design that uses light gray text on a white background
will not be very usable. Likewise, a design that requires form field to be
to the left of their labels may work for some people but, becau
Interesting points. Thank you. The only one more thing I'm looking for further
clarification is what constitutes "a truly scalable, robust
solution that is flexible"?
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echies, it will
likely not be the best interface.
Many developers tend to scoff at the notion that usability is anything more
than making sure things work. The truth is, there's a whole field of
Computer Science dedicated to usability, and rightfully so. Usability is
something that should be
just my 2 cents:
One of the most challenging issues is balancing dev to market time with
usability that truly meets the needs of the target audience.
"Idiot-proofing" comes to mind as vital, yet to the extent that it can be
done in deliverable time-lines. Stripped out admin is s
This is not a new question, however, IMHO, it won't
hurt to talk about it again.
In my view, some assumptions are made by developers
when they think of an application's usability, for
instance, for data validation, when a developer's help
doc says something like "You need
We did one in ASP called athleteselect.com
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Subject: (OT) Usability quantification
> Does anyone know of any Amateur Sports Portal Sites like
Does anyone know of any Amateur Sports Portal Sites like www.eteamz.com and
www.myteam.com? I know Erica was working on one, but I can't remember the
url. Interested in any and all. Open Source initiative in a free hosted
environment?
(OT) Usability quantification
What the hell does that
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